Coffee Description
*** ONLY ROASTING MONDAY, 11/18/2024 ***
Get ready for a delightful coffee adventure with our Panama Esmeralda Bosque Geisha Natural from the legendary Hacienda La Esmeralda farm in Panama. This award-winning brew is bursting with an intense berry aroma that will tickle your senses. You'll love its sweet, balanced body, and the irresistible flavor notes of boysenberry and peach, with a refreshing melon finish. Enjoy every sip!
Panama Esmeralda Bosque Geisha Natural is a part of the Esmeralda Special Reserve, Klatch Coffee has a long time relationship with the Peterson coffee family. Their Geisha micro-lots are sold exclusively by direct trade. Since 2004 the Peterson family have worked hard to create the infrastructure that supports a Geisha production, which consistently delivers the attributes that made the world fall in love with this special coffee variety. The coffee cherries are hand-picked with care at their reddest and ripest from the Bosque lot in Hacienda La Esmeralda’s Jaramillo farm.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light/Medium
Variety
Gesha
Process
Natural
Region
Boquete, Chiriqui
About The Peterson Family, Hacienda La Esmeralda of Panama
THE BEGINNINGS
The lands that make up Hacienda La Esmeralda were first brought together as a single estate by a Swede named Hans Elliot in 1940. This land comprised several hundred hectares in what are now the Palmira and Cañas Verdes farms. In 1967, a Swedish- American banker by the name of Rudolph A. Peterson (1904-2003) bought Hacienda La Esmeralda as a retirement venture. At the time, the land was predominantly pasture for beef cattle, with some small smatterings of coffee mixed in.
By 1975 the Petersons had switched the farms over to dairy cattle which performed quite well and continues to make up half of Esmeralda’s farm land today. In the mid- 80s, the family was looking to further diversify and coffee, with its rich production history in the Boquete region, was a perfect opportunity.
Boquete, Chiriqui, Panama
Klatch
Klatch \ˈklach, ˈkläch\ --People getting together to share life, especially over coffee.
And that’s what Klatch Coffee has been about since owner Mike Perry decided to follow his passion for quality coffee. While in college, he asked himself, "Why not bring together the charm and comfort of a traditional coffeehouse and serve world class specialty coffees?" And so he did. In 1993, he and his wife, Cindy, opened their first location in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, called it Coffee Klatch (later changed to the present name, Klatch Coffee), and began searching the world for the cream of the coffee crops, and small-batch roasting that top 1% of specialty beans to coax the best flavors and aromas from them.
Now, with five locations (plus their roastery) in Southern California as well as a shop in LAX United Terminal, Mike and his family and their dedicated team have built on that foundation of being a place where people love to linger over truly special coffee. Meanwhile, they’re making history one award at a time. A few of these include:
Prestigious Golden Bean Awards
Only espresso ever awarded "Best Espresso in the World" at the World Barista Championships (2007)
U.S Brewers’ Cup Champion
Good Food awards winner
Mike says, “Our commitment to honest business practices means we build trust and loyalty with the farmers we work with. All of this is accomplished through a Direct Trade model and a simple handshake.”
